The highly sculpted front façade of Sculpt – a Japanese concrete house in Ashiya, designed by Hyogo-based architecture studio Maniera – is not the result of an arbitrary gesture or architectural ...

Most of the traditional Japanese-style houses in the countryside have a gate and a pathway within a garden that leads to an entrance. Having a garden in front of the house allows passers-by and ...

The only opening is the front door of the house, which provides a view straight through to the courtyard. Kouichi Kimura of Japanese studio Form designed the ground floor of the 112-square-metre ...

Architecture studio KKAA YTAA has completed a home with a central courtyard named House in Front of a School in ... area," said the studio. Other Japanese homes recently featured on Dezeen include ...